My Television Production Blog

Your Reality is a short film wrote and produced by Tajana Anders and directed by Top Tarasin. The short film is based on tow young adults Alysha (Tajana Anders) and Mark (Tyler James) who coincidentally meet at a coffee house and get in a very fast-moving and one-sided abusive relationship. Tajana stated that she created the film to raise awareness around the issue of gaslighting and the significant effect it can have on someone. Tajana stated in her website that gaslighting “is an elaborate and insidious technique of psychological manipulation. Its effect is to gradually undermine the victim’s confidence in his own ability to distinguish truth from falsehood, right from wrong, or reality from appearance, thereby rendering him pathologically dependent on the gaslighter in his thinking or feelings.” Different ways of gaslighting include countering, withholding, forgetting, trivializing and diverting, most of which are very clear traits the Mark hold but due to the storyline, we do n...

“Make me a sandwich” a short film by Denman Hatch brilliantly portrays the complex issues of stereotypes and domestic abuse but in a subtle which makes the film deserve all the praise that it gets.   In this short film we are shown the abusive relationship between Marcy and her husband Johnson. The film starts with Johnson (Peter Hodgins) shrieking “Where’s my sandwich?” Which establishes the demanding and disgusting character that he wanted to portray. We can see that he is a very arrogant man who takes advantage of his kind hearted and soft wife Marcy (Anne Sheperd). We then see Marcy racing in holding a sandwich claiming its “just the way he likes it” which almost foreshadows that the sandwiches she’ll make from now on will not be one he likes   but she realises after adding disgusting ingredients to each sandwich, each one worse then the last, that he can’t taste the difference and this pushes Marcy to push this and figure out what he can’t taste. From the way that Marcy f...

September is an excellent BAFTA winning written and directed by Esther May Campbell. The film is about a young man, Marvin, who works in a motorway service station but his life is suddenly changed forever when someone extraordinary enters his life.   The main concept of this film is the time and life constantly passing by whilst also moving forward from a life that you could be trapped in. The first three shots in the film include a car on a motorway, streetlamp and electricity pylons, these all paint an image of where we are and what the story might entail, this is all done from the very start but we are yet to find this out. We first meet the character Marvin in a field gazing up in the sky at the sun and the planes passing over him, this shot also can defines Marvin's whole character, he's gazing up at the sky, intrigued by the unknown, the first perception of the protagonist is extremely important. We can clearly see that Marvin is interested in nature and the idea of freed...